[member="Samka Derith"].
If any of your fellow FO writers wish to skirt [member="Ty Rellius"] and I to engage other writers deeper in the castle, that's more than fine by me. The NPCs are just there as background noise/flavor, and are by no means intended to stop writers from engaging in PVP if they wish.
I would appreciate, however, that if they skirt the NPCs they don't just mow them down, but rather slip past them in the chaos of storming the breech. I'd like their demise/survival to be based on the outcome of the duel about to occur at the gates.